Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I'm still a bit worried about applying it unless it gets some
>> adaptive behaviour or something so that we don't cause any serious
>> performance regressions in some cases.
>
> I'll try to come up with something. At the most conservative end, we
> could fall back to the current method on the first escape, quote or
> backslash character.
>
>> Also, could we perhaps benefit from inlining some calls, or is your
>> compiler doing that anyway?
>
> gcc does inline all static functions that are only called from one
> site, and small functions, using some heuristic. I don't think more
> aggressive inlining would help.
>
Another question that occurred to me - did you try using strpbrk() to
look for the next interesting character rather than your homegrown
searcher gadget? If so, how did that perform?
cheers
andrew